The 2012 Cannes Film Festival is underway (catch up with Movieline's coverage from the French Riviera here), and plenty of stars have already traipsed the Croisette. See Marion Cotillard, Sean Penn, Bill Murray, Jada Pinkett Smith, Naomi Watts, Eva Longoria, Freida Pinto, Jane Fonda, Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger, and more in Movieline's gallery of red carpet looks and candid shots from Cannes.
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"I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel," the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo lead opined in a recent interview when the subject of attention-craved stars came up. "You can't buy your privacy back. Ooh, I want to be alone. F-- you. We've been in your living room. We were at your birth. [...] It is a career; I'm not being cynical. And why wouldn't you? Look at the Kardashians, they're worth millions... I don't think they were that badly off to begin with, but now look at them. You see that and you think, 'What, you mean all I have to do is behave like a f--ing idiot on television and then you'll pay me millions?' I'm not judging it. Well, I am, obviously." [EW]
Over at Movieline sister site Deadline, Nikki Finke's got a whopper of an interview with Simon Cowell, who revealed to her his proposed line-up of judges for the U.S. version of the British reality contest series The X Factor. Will reuniting with fellow American Idol judge Paula Abdul draw in the ratings? Bigger question: Who is Cheryl Cole?
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